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The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
A CHECKEREO LIFE.
An Enthusiast Whose Every Action Is I
 fuenced by His Love of Checkers.

An Enthusiast Whose Every Action Is In
 fiuenced by His Love of Checkers.
 There is an old, inveterate checker player in Austin, who has devoted so much time to his favorite game that it has given bent to all his actions. He only patronizes ''the old checker store" He has q fondness for check shirts, and wears no clothes that are not made of checkered stuff He walks in squares, and at intervals hops over some imagin- ary obstacle as if jumping" his op- pOnent's man.
 He will stop stock still in front of some passing stranger, and when the surprised individual says, inquiringly: "Well, sir?" he responds: Beg par don, sir, but it is your turn to move" ." Nor will he move until the stranger does, if they stand there all day.
 He loves to watch the boys playing leap-frog, because it is so suggestive of jumps made on a checker-board. Sometimes he cries out to boy: ''See there; now; you've jumped one of your own men!' an unpardOnable blunder in his estimation.
 Once a policeman, who saw him standing on a corner, took him for q suspicious character and ordered him to move on." ''SO I would" replied the checker man, "but I haven't any thing to move on. l left my checker board at home"
 He is bitterly opposed to republican institutions because, he says, they pre- vent a man getting into the liking row." which is the height of his ambi- tion. Crowns, according to his theory. are the only things worth striving for, and he has the greatest admira- ton for historic characters, who. beginning as a single man" on the checker-board of life, have, by careful and adroit, sometimes by bold. brilliant moves, finally got there. Napoleon Bonaparte is his model, even though he was cornered at last so that he couldn't make another move.
 The old checker-player once got on the police force. but he showed such fondness for taking up men, that it was necessary to dismiss him. And he wouldn't allow suspicious persons to 'jump'' the town if he could prevent it, however desirable it might be that they should do so. His latest freak has been to open a clearinghouse. where he advertises to furnish excellent checker board at five dollars a week" " Even his hash is chopped up into squares; a substitute for square meal, probabl- TeraS SiftialqS.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
PIOUS REQUESTS.
Good People Who Appropriated Funds for
 Keeping Worshipers Awake.

Good People Who Appropriated Funds for
 Keeping Worshipers Awake.
 In olden times many pious individuals considered it a good work to set aside part of their worldly wealth for keeping the members of the congregation from sleeping during divine services.
 On the 17th of April, 1725, John Rudge bequeathed to the parish of Trysull, in Shropshire, twenty shillings a year, that a poor man might be employed to go about the church during the sermon and keep the people awake.
 A bequest of Richard Doyery, of Farmcote, dated 1859, had in view the payment of eight shillings in the church of Claverly, Shropshire, for a similar purpose.
 At Acton church, in Cheshire, about thirty years ago, one of the church wardens used to go around in the church during service with huge wand in his hand, and if any of the congrega- ton were asleep they were instantly awakened by tap on the head.
 At Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, a similar custom existed. A person bearing a stout wand, shaped like a hay fork at the end, stepped stealthily up and down the nave and aisles. and whenever he saw an individual asleep he touched him so effectually that the spell was broken-this being some times done by fitting the fork to the nap of the neck.
 A more playful method is said to have been used in another church, where the beadle went round the edifice during service carrying long staff, at one end of which was a foX's brush, and at the other a knob. With the former he gently tickled the faces of the female sleepers, while on the heads of their male compeers he bestowed with the knob sensible rap.-AH the Year Round.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
Her History Mixed.

There was a very pretty young lady last summer, who was leading a flock of friends of her own age over the Isles of Shoals You will remember that brave John Smith discovered these isles, which should, by right, have borne his name; but he was busy and restless fellow, who set foot in many New England hooks, and left his memory there, as well as in the glades of Virginia. On Star Island, the mostin- teresting of the Shoals, some of the by gone inhabitants have put up monu- ment to Captain Smith. The wording on it is clumsy and queer, but the kind ly and right feeling makes up for that Our accurate young lady spied the monument, and piloted the eyes of her party toward it with her parasOl. ''That's Smith," she said.
 "Who's Smith?" asked one of the grown boys, an unenlightened boy he was, to be sure.
 "Why, it's the Smith that cut of Pocahontas' headr' she replied, with extreme distrust for his ignorance.
 And the last we heard or them, they were securing old Gosport for POwha- tan's house! I think it must have beB-- this same young lady who answeredtn examination question concerning the cause of the Trojan war, by the pleas ant information that Hannibal carried off Helen in wooden horse.-Loltis I7noqen Guiney, ID Wide AlOake.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
THE MODERN GRADUATE.

''Dad, I want to go to college" said the son unto the sire; '"Tis a craving after knowledge that engenders the desire. Want name and dross to back it, want to figure in affairs; Have a sublunary racket, ere I climb the golden stairs Of he went to halls of learning, when with others of his class, He forgot his former warning, and he just con trived to pass. Then he purchased an oration, let it of com mencement day; If there wasn't an ovation, still there was a great display. Back came he to halls parental. Said the sire unto his son: 'sNow for the test experimental of the laurels you have won" '"Watch me, dad he then divested self of jack ct, vest and hat; Then his powers he attested, with his little ball and bat; Turned in cart wheels, somersaulted, jumped and wrestled, skinned the cat Kicked a football, leaped and vaulted ''There now father, how is that!' Then the parent gazed intently, not single word spoke he; But his offspring subsequently, soon was stretched across his knee.
 -Teras Siftings
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
J. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER 13.

utter a shout of warning, the guide pulled again, and the rope parted.
 "For a second Iexpected to fall back over the precipicei but fortunately, the step at that place was wide enough to afford me foothold. and by pressing against the stony wall, I held on.
 1.-The guide at first thought I had gone over; but 1 shouted to him to double the rope and toss it over, and after several trials succeeded in catch ing it, though back to and in a position that the slightest wind might have blown me off soon had it tied about my waist, and pushing out to relieve the strain, I went slowly up, and finally reached the top in safety, as domoralized an individual as you sell dom see."
 The chamois is only occasionally hunted now, except by skilled hunters who have been brought up in the busi- ness, and the little creatures are con- paratively rare. There are several varieties of them, but only one distinct species-the RupicapTa, found in the European Alps, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus; a familiar animal in the museums, though rarely seen alive. The chamois is about two feet six inches high at the shoulder, and three feet in length. The horns are small, erect and turned at the tips, giving the little animal very jaunty appearance. The hair is dense, coarse, brownish red, being, as rule, darker in winter.
 They travel in bands of from twenty to fifty, generally led by doe, the old bucks leading a more solitary life. They are remarkably active. dashing down the steepest precipices with sure foot; and so keen is their scent that it is al- most impossible to approach them- At the first intimation of danger, the doe on guard warns the rest h,y shriH whistle, at thCs same time stamping her feet as if tc' insure attention. and of they go,fover places where it would not be deemed possible, and where hunters can not follow Four-horned chamois have been found, the two sets of horns giving the animal strange appear ance. This, however, is merely an ac- cidental occurrence.
 At certain seasons of the year the bucks become extremely pugnacious, and terrific duels are frequently fought on the tops of the lofty peaks, and often the defeated chamois has been hurled by its adversary over the cliff to dez struction below, while, in the back ground, the rest of the herd ard anxiously awaiting the termination of the battle The colors of both sescsA are about the same. The e-s , chamois is slightly smaller thsE q . male. The kids are of deer, E. j ish-brown color, having the under N both sides of the(head and the tr white Muck of the so-calied ch leather comes from these little aa that in some parts of Austria aI found in herds of fifty or more 4 beautiful horns are much valr Switzerland, where they are mao ornaIrcants of various kinds, as and paper-cutUc.r handles, while ev the hoofs are used in n1strRy ways. chamois is believed to be gradually {, the decrease, and perhaps some of tn present generation may live to see their total extinction. - Charles Frederick \ Holder, tn Golden DayS.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26

tai wrinkles across the nose indicate will and resolution. Persons success ful in carrying forward great enter prises, like building railroads, laying telegraph cables, founding and man. aging communities, and all undertak- ings requiring persistence, show this height of nose.
 1.-The convex or rounded eye denotes strength. Small eyes belong to me chanical, scientific and exact people. The most readily brought to a focus serves this class of minds best. Large-eyed persons receive sensations wildly and lose them almost as readily.'' Farther, our author says: "I can not think any person entirely frank and well-prin- cipled who is narrow between the eyes. History shows no man of eminence with this peculiarity. Short, blunt, full noses belong to artistic and mu- sical people-Parepa, Wilhelmj, Lucca, Annie Louise Cary, Arthur Sullivan, for example The musical ear is adapted to receive sounds, standing out from the head, of good size, and red from the supply of blood, which increases its sensitiveness. The reader may try these signs on people he knows best, remembering that Dr. John Cross, wise Scotchman, says: '1t rests with physiognomy to detect the imposter; he can not prevent an organ from falling, by self-accommodating power, into color, size and shape most suited to its function. "-M T. Mail and Empress.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
CRABS PHILOSOPHY.
Worldly Wisdom Picked Up in the Course
 of a WeII-Spent Life.

Worldly Wisdom Picked Up in the Course
 of a WelI-Spent Life.
 I notice that a egotist is allus some other feller.
 We kin git heap of information from animal. Nobody never see a dorg tryin' ter chaw two bones ter oncet.
 Ther's many man as has get col lege edication thet goes through life without findin' out how ter invest it.
 That makes me think that cursin' don't pay. Inever knowed any one ter git Twin doin' it.
 I never seen a cheese so rank thet somebody wouldn't eat it, n l never seen a job so mean thet sombody wouldn't do it.
 Ther ain't nothin' like discretion. I'd heap sight sooner hey fifty dol lar nag than a ten thousand dollar one eff was goin ter blow.
 I've heard lots of folks tell thet the world owed them a Twin, but I hain't never heard that they got any lawyer ter collect the bill on shares.
 Ther's Q good many men in this here world thet's like cider-sweet when yer fust meet 'em, but the longer yer know 'em the harder they git.
 Elf a man lows ter me thet he's turned over a new leaf, I'll bet my yoke of brindle steers thet nine times out of ten it'll read durn sight worse than the tother.
 Elf hear some feller allus braggin' about his ancestors, I ginerally make up my mind that eff them ancestors was Twin they couldn't do much braggin' about him.-L. R. CGtLia, in JxdgR
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
A Wild Beast's Rage.

Though Polar bears have got the name of being untamable brutes, they agree very we'll among themselves as rule. Indeed, the she-bear is model mother, kind and self-denying to her young ones, which she will defend against every foe to her last breath Captivity seems to have the effect of souring their temper. At any rate male and female bear fell out in the Cologne Geological Gardens ten years ago, and a furious fight ensued- The latter growing exhausted by the strug- gle, her opponent dragged her to the. large trough in the den and held her beneath the water till death put an end to her sufferings. There was terrible earnestness in all this which shows how savagely cruel wild beast is when in state of ungovernable rage. Little Folks.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
A Mighty Lucky Escape.

Well, sir, feel good this morning." said Baker as he met friend on the street yesterday.
 'Over whatP"
 "Well, for the last two months I've been suspicious that sewer-gas had crept into my house. The plumbers have been up and hunted in vain for the leak, and we were all getting dis couraged, when the problem was solved last night. "
 "How?"
 Found our cat, which had been missing, since last November, shut up under one of the lavatories. Tell you. we just felt chipper to think it wasn't sewer-gasr'-DetrOH Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
PlTH AND POINT.

It is to be expected that old creeds will be subverted where so many per- sons are turning over Andover.-Bos- ton Transcript
 The law can not make a man moral, but it can make him dreadfully uncomfortable when he is immoral Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun.
 An exchange says "kind words are never lost" But your wife sometimes mislays them until she wants another new bonnet. t.- Konkers Statesman.
 -"Where is the ideal wife?" asks a lecturer. Well, if she is out looking for the ideal husband, her search will prove fruitless.-NorriStoU Herald
 An article now going the rounds is headed: What to Wear" We know what to wear now without reading it. It is winter clothes. es.-PittSburgh Chron- icle.
 If you want tew git at the circum- ference of a man, examine him among folks; but if you want tew git at his aktual diameter, meazure him at hiz fireside.-BOStOH Bulletin.
 If you have ever noticed the men who occupy the front seats at the theaters, you must have remarked how much more polite they are than the ladies. They sit without even their hair on.--Burlington Free Press.
 -Wife-I don't see how you can say that Mr. WhitechOker has an effeminate way of talking. He has very loud voice. Husband-I mean by an effem- mate way of talking, my dear, that he talks all the time-Hdrper's Bazar.
 When woman gets on a street. car and spreads out her skirts so that she occupies two seats you can make up your mind that her husband always sits on the edge of his chair. and says ''Yes, nm, :" ''No, nm" to her.-NeW HdUen NetCS.
 What On?-In Germany teachers are very poorly paid. At a teachers festival somebody proposed the toast: Long live our school-teachers!" "What onP" asked a cadaverous-look- ing specimen, rising in his seat Teras Siftings.
 -Foiled Again.-Fogg ogg-Dreadfully close here. think I'll open the tran som. SmoothbOre-Ah!t that makes me think of story. Binks-What does? Smoothbore-Why. Fogg opening the transom. Binks-Fogg, shut that tran son.-Rdnlbler.
 -"What have you for desert?" asked the tired boarder of the new girl, with spit curls and an averaging smile. ''Mincepieapplepi eraspb erryrollandco- coanutpuddin' salloutant hatsw h a ty O u getforcomin' late, answered the sweet thing. Chicago Tribune.
 Hopeful Ma, want q new dish for my bread and milk. Mother-Why, Willie. we have no new dishes. Hope ful-Yes, we have, ma, COS heard pa tell man he dropped in and got sev- eral bowls this afternoon. Johnnie still wonders why he was sent to bed for nothing.
 Things One Would Rather Have Left Unsaid. now, my dear Gen. eral, come and sit by me and tell me all the scandal that's happened while I've been away" Well, really, Mrs. MallechO, er-you see-er-the fact is, that while you've been away, there has been no scandalr' Punch.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26

A young English swell, wto claimed to be cousin of the Ean of Shrewsbury, and who was always DOT rowing money on the strength of ex- pected remittances, has been victimiz- ing the upper crust of Pittsburgh so- ciety. He left the city suddenly few days ago to accept an alleged invite tion to visit the British Minister st Washington, and it is thought he vii not come back. Pittsburgh Post.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26

-"What is filling our insane asy- lums?" asks a patent-medicine adver- tisement. Well, there are 350,O00 brass bands in this country at the pres ent time, and the number is rapidly in creasing. If this is not the right an swer we have another -NorristoWH Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
REMEMBER THAT.

THE GIRL Now, Pussy Gray, Come here, pray: Listen to what have to say Sit on the cushion at my side And have your ribbon neatly tied; You must not scratch, nor growl. nor bite, And you must never steal, nor fight; But clear the house of rats and mice, And keep your fur and whIskers nice. The things that other pussies do Would not be right at all, for you, You are D1y cat; Remember that.
 HE CAT. Oh, Mistress May, Your Pussy Gray Has Iuite as much as you to say: You should not scold nor pinch, nor strike, Nor feed me only when you like, Nor shut me out to freeze at night When you are tucked up warm and tight, But treat me always in the way You'd like if yOW were Pussy Gray. The things that other people do Are none the nearer right for you; I am VOur cat, Remember that.
 III R. Hudson, i1 Wide-A,rdks.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-26

In San Francisco they no longer test a mans sobriety by asking him to say Truly rural" They try on "Chrysanthemum,n
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23
Lessons iu American Housekeeping.

The eldest Miss West presides charmingly
over the home Of the English legation, and is
An accomplished housekeeper as well as
hostess During her first years in Washing
ION, while new to her responsibilities and
uew to the country, she was victimized in the
most thorough manner by servants and
trades people The other diplomats, who all
know that Washington is one of the most ex-
pensive capitals to maintain a legation estab
iishment in handsome style, could even then
hardly understand why Mr.. West and his
daughter were complaining of being ruined
by the cost of things in Washington, At last
some one ventured TO say that their trusted
major domo. a right hand man for years,
was neslecting or cheating. The practical
investigation Of domestic affairs proved that
this steward had been swindling in the most
high handed manner, and robbing bis employ
er on an unheard of scale. His populations
amounted to thousands, but he was off and
out of the way before it was proven. The
Young mistress Of the house then took charge,
and by personal supervision learned how fine
an art and how complex thing it is to KEEP
house in this country, compared To the sys-
sen1atic and long established way Of things IL
Europe.-St- Louis Globe Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23
Portraits OF the Speakers.

In the house corridor on the south side OF
the chamber. known as "the speakers lobby"
are hung a number Of photographs and
erayons of the various gentlemen who have
been chosen To preside over the house Most
Of these are Indifferent pictures, those repre-
senting the earlier speakers being enlarged
photographs, copied from such pictures of the
subjects as were obtainable. Information has
been received from the governor of MasSa-
chusetts TO the effect that an appropriation
hiss been made by that state 10 supply oil
paintings of such citizens OF the Bay state
is have been speakers of the house. This is
An example which will be doubtless followed
by the legislatures of other states, and in a
few years, it is hoped, a valuable and credit
able collection of oil paintings Of all the men
who have been chosen to preside over the
house will take the place of the Indifferent
pictures that now hang upon the walls Of the
speakers lobby.-Cor. Philadelphia Ledger
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23

III reply TO great many inquiries in re-
gard to Judson University property, the
trustees OF said institution respectfully aa-
nouuce to the public that they have not yet
put any property on the market.
When the Judson University property y
ready for sale, due announcement will be
made. And they further request parties
plating additions in the vicinity of the uni
versity not to use the corporation name of
the institution.
Meantime persons desiring information
may call upon j. F. Sherman, chairman ex-
ecutive committee; f. E. A. Smith, secre-
tary of the board, or W. F. Harper, presi-
dent Of the board. 115-tf
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23
List Of Bargains.


". o. Riddell g. Co., over Kansas Ma
tional bank, comes to the front only when
prices are such as to ''head them good bar
gains.
so # on Division st. 81, 100
lots in Riverside addition, s., 600.
50 it cor 10th and Allen, east front, 81, 100.
100 it Butler & Fishers addition, $1,000.
800.
so It, east front, Car, Itrk, 81 600.
Lots in 10th st additio.l, S275 per lot.
s lots cor Ida and Division SITS, $1,000.
4 lots cor 18th and Emporia, northeast
fronts, $1,000
SO it between LIST and Douglas on Emporia,
$4,000.
50 # On Emporia near 14th st, front, ST.
GOO.
SO it on Topeka cor English, $4,000.
loot Rosenthals add, $3.50.
100 # Rosenthal's add, cor, 81, 100.
100 # Rosenthals add, 81 $50
100 it Rosenthal's add, s1,4OO,
so # cor 1st and Emporia, S16,500.
| lots in Logan add. W f, 81, 200.
25 # on Lawrence ave near 1st st, 5000.
SO TT cor English and Topeka, good house,
$4,000.
soft on Topeka ave, cor English, nice
house, s14 500.
8 lots on cor Ellis & Grand, $500.
4 lots, f, Wichita st, Carey park, 81, 700.
so # cor Fannie and Francis, 81 100.
125 # on Francis, also fronts on Hydraul-
ic, $4,000.
Is # on Faulkner ave, Riverside add,
s., 600.
l13 # on cor LIST and 5th avenue. $50, Coo
lots on cor Waco and 17th-st So, $50.
Is feet on New York ave near Douglas
1000
lots here and lots in all parts Of the
city We have property for sale in all parts
of the city. We do strictly commission
business, and sell property at owners price.
Our correspondence is large and control
some of the best property in the city. We
viii be glad to have buyers as well as sellers
call and see u.s. Over the Kansas National
Bank, Main street. W. O. Riddell q Co.
122tf
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23
Won 77oitke Once Beaten.

La France has discovered by dint of rum
maging over ancient history, that the great
Won Nolt5c WAS once beaten by French
man. ii v2S in 1880. Won Noltke was
military clviSer OF Eantiz PaSha. the Turkish
commander sent to oppose Mehemet Ali But
the Egyptian leader had as an adviser Capt
Beaufort d'Hautpone. In the operations on
The Alep?o road this young Frcnchman
Gheckmated Won Moltke's moves, and his tri-
amphant progress was stayed only by Eu-
7opean interyertions and the treaty Of Lon
ann- Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-23

Special Offers.
choice lots in McCormick's addition, $3.50.
corner lot on Main st, $500.
5 lots in Pilot Grove add, 81 AGO.
lots in McCormick's add, 81 800
so # two lots, one Of the finest corners on
Main st, So, 600.
lots on Fourth ave, near 18th st, So. 900.
lots ON Lawrence ave, Ford's add, $4,000.
lots on Emporia ave, near 18th st, $500.
lots on Waco, south of 18th st, 81 500.
lots corner Jackson and Carey avenues,
$4,000.
3 lots on Jackson, south Of 10th st, $1,000.
SO # on Douglas ave, fine corner, $4,000.
10Ox300 # in Ford's I'd add. &, 200.
One acre on Lawrence ave, Zimerlie's add.
114x317 # very cheap, $500.
/ lot on n Main st, $1,000.
The above--prices are very cheap and this
property must sell, besides we have business
lots and good residence lots in all parts of
the city and we take pleasure in showing
customers these properties.
NJ s. ROCHELLE,
1906 l23 e. Douglas ave.